Mild with intermittent sun and cloudiness. Up 7:30 A.M. Read and slept in A.M. To Church & S.S. at Glenville Center. Took ride. Over Ridge road etc. Called at Tom and Ida Plummers. Read and talked and sang. To bed 10 P.M. No rain.
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Tom and Ida Plummer may be the couple who live on the Sacandaga Road in Glenville, according to the 1910 and 1930 federal census and the 1925 New York census. Thomas is a laborer and Ida is a housewife. They have a daughter Madeline, who in 1919 is about 14, I believe, and her parents are around 45. They also have Ida's sister living with them. By 1940, Madeline is the head of household, working as a servant in a private home.
However, there is another couple named Tom and Ida Plummer, and they live in Charlton, which is about 5 miles from the Closson farm in Glenville. These people are older, 66 and 40, respectively, and they have nine children, ages 2.5 to 29 (although the oldest might be the son of a different wife). Which Plummers did Stanford call on? The fact that he took Ridge Road doesn't help; that road goes away from both Sacandaga and Charlton. It's a mystery, therefore, at the moment.
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